You Knew My Steez - Gang Starr.mp3

[00:04.50][Guru talking]
[00:13.80]That makes me know that what we're doing
[00:15.60]We had the right idea in the beginning
[00:17.16]And and we just need to maintain our focus and elevate
[00:19.56]We what we do we update our formulas
[00:21.42]We have certain formulas but we update em (oh right)
[00:23.82]With the times and everything y'know
[00:25.20]So y'know the rhyme style is elevated
[00:26.34]The style of beats is elevated but it's still Guru and Premier
[00:28.89]And it's always a message involved
[00:30.81][Intro]
[00:32.13]The real (The real)
[00:32.73]Hip-hop (Hip-hop)
[00:33.33]MCing (MCing), and DJing (DJing)
[00:34.35]From your own mind (From your own mind)
[00:35.58]You know? (You know?)
[00:36.93]I, I guess right now we should start the show
[00:39.84][Verse 1: Guru]
[00:40.86]Who's the suspicious character
[00:41.73]Strapped with the sounds profound?
[00:42.78]Similar to rounds spit by Derringers
[00:43.92]You're in the Terrordome, like my man Chuck D said
[00:45.90]It's time to dethrone you clones and all you knuckleheads
[00:47.79]‘Cause MC's have used up extended warranties
[00:49.05]While real MC's and DJ's are a minority
[00:50.22]But right about now, I use my authority
[00:51.21]‘Cause I'm like the Wizard, and you look lost like Dorothy
[00:53.16]The horror be when I return for my real people
[00:54.48]Words that split wigs hittin' like some double Desert Eagles
[00:56.58]Sportin' caps pulled low, and baggy slacks
[00:58.29]Subtractin' all the rappers who lack over Premier's tracks
[01:00.78]Severe facts have brought this rap game to near collapse
[01:04.17]So as I have in the past, I whoop ass
[01:05.31]Droppin' lyrics that be hotter than sex and candle wax
[01:07.20]And one-dimensional MC's can't handle that
[01:08.37]While the world's revolvin', on its axis
[01:10.86]I come with mad lovin', plus the illest warlike tactics
[01:15.48]The wilderness is filled with this
[01:17.88]So many people searchin' for False bliss
[01:21.84]I'm here with the skills you've missed
[01:28.14]The rejected stone is now the cornerstone
[01:29.76]Sorta like the master builder when I make my way home
[01:31.62]You know my steez
[01:31.92][Hook]
[01:32.43]You know my steez
[01:32.85]Let 'em know, do your thing, God
[01:33.54]Keep it live (Keep it live, keep it live)
[01:34.62]To the beat y'all
[01:35.04][Verse 2]
[01:36.03]The beat is sinister, Premo makes you relax
[01:37.38]I'm like the minister, when I be lacin' the wax
[01:41.37]I be bringin' salvation through the way that I rap
[01:44.34]And you know, and I know, I'm nice like that
[01:46.23]Work through worldly problems, I got the healing power
[01:48.06]When the mic's within my reach, I'm feelin' more power
[01:49.32]Stealin' at least three minutes of every rap radio hour
[01:52.80]It's often easier for one to give advice
[01:53.79]Than it is for a person to run one's own life
[01:57.60]That's why I can't be caught up in all the hype
[02:02.73]I keep my soul tight and let these lines take flight
[02:04.05]The apparatus gets blessed, and suckers get put to rest
[02:07.05]No more of the unpure, I got the cure for this mess
[02:08.49]The wackness is spreadin' like the plague
[02:09.30]MC's lucked up and got paid
[02:11.40]But still can't make the ****in' grade
[02:12.81]How many times are wannabe's gonna lie?
[02:13.98]Yo, they must wanna fry
[02:14.85]They can't touch the knowledge I personify
[02:16.08]I travel through the darkness, carryin' my torch
[02:17.25]The illest soldier, when I'm holdin' down the fort
[02:20.31]You know my steez
[02:21.12](You know my steez)
[02:21.87][Hook]
[02:23.79]Let 'em know, do your thing, God
[02:25.80]Keep it live (Keep it live)
[02:27.00]You know my steez
[02:27.81]Let 'em know, do your thing, God
[02:31.14]Keep it live (Keep it live)
[02:32.34]You know my steez
[02:33.09]Let 'em know, do your thing, God
[02:33.66]Keep it live (Keep it live)
[02:34.20]You know my steez
[02:34.50]Let 'em know, do your thing, God
[02:36.45]Keep it live (Keep it live)
[02:37.29]The mic
[02:37.50][Verse 3]
[02:37.77]On the microphone, you know that I'm one of the best yet
[02:39.96]Some punks ain't paid all of their debts yet
[02:41.31]Tryin' to be fly, ridin' high on the jet
[02:42.09]Set with juvenile rhymes, makin' fake-ass death threats
[02:44.34]Big deal, like En Vogue, here's somethin' you can feel
[02:46.05]Styles more tangible, and image more real
[02:47.34]For some time now, I've held the scrolls and manuscripts
[02:49.80]When it's time to go all out, you be like, "Damn, he flipped!"
[02:51.63]Now I'm sick, fed up with the bullshit
[02:53.34]Got the lyrical full clip, givin' you a verbal asswhip
[02:54.84]Don't trip, it's the gifted prolific one
[02:57.33]Known as Bald Head Slick, why is the press all on my di-dick?
[03:03.27]My style be wilder than a kamikaze pilot
[03:05.85]Don't try it, I'm about to start more than a friggin' riot
[03:07.92]Styles unsurpassable, and nuccas that's suckas
[03:09.45]Yo, them mother****ers are harrassable
[03:11.67]For I be speakin' from my parables and carry you beyond
[03:13.56]The mic's either a magic wand
[03:14.49]Or it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear bomb
[03:16.86]Then I grab your palm, no pulse, you're gone
[03:18.45]And if you thought we'd lose our niche
[03:19.14]In this rap shit, you way wrong
[03:20.22]I stay up, I stay on, shine bright like neon
[03:21.48]Your song's pathetic, synthetic like Rayon
[03:23.49]Fat beats, they play on
[03:23.94]Want dope rhymes? Put me on
[03:24.66]Word is bond
[03:25.05]You know my steez